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| PC David Phillips murder: family lay floral tributes at scene | |
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| The family of David Phillips have laid flowers at the scene where the Merseyside police officer was struck and killed by a speeding stolen car. | |
| Jen Phillips, 28, and her children Abi, seven, and Sophie, three, laid lilies at the grass verge where members of the public and police colleagues had already left floral tributes. The officer’s parents, Robin and Carol, and Jen’s parents, Robert and Kerry, also visited the scene, along with other family members including his two sisters, Kate and Hannah. | |
| The emotional scene took place as Merseyside police said they had arrested two women as part of a murder investigation. | |
| The pair, aged 19 and 34, from Wallasey, Merseyside, were detained on Tuesday night on suspicion of assisting an offender, police said. The development follows the arrest of two men, aged 18 and 30, from the Oxton and Wallasey areas of the Wirral, on suspicion of murder after an intense manhunt. All were in custody. | |
| About 20 officers took part in a search of a home on Eastcroft Road, Wallasey, a few miles from the site of the fatal collision on Wallasey Dock Road North and Corbyn Street. | |
| One man told the Liverpool Echo: “I saw the big yellow police van turn up and about seven or eight coppers ploughed in there. Then another fellow turned up with two dogs. He took one dog in first then the other dog in second. They’ve also turned up with stepladders and two coppers were in the back garden. I saw them bring out lots of bags, apparently some computers were also taken out. They were checking the bedrooms and messing around with the lock.” | One man told the Liverpool Echo: “I saw the big yellow police van turn up and about seven or eight coppers ploughed in there. Then another fellow turned up with two dogs. He took one dog in first then the other dog in second. They’ve also turned up with stepladders and two coppers were in the back garden. I saw them bring out lots of bags, apparently some computers were also taken out. They were checking the bedrooms and messing around with the lock.” |
| Phillips, 34, was hit by the Mitsubishi L200 Challenger as it was being chased by police following a burglary in the early hours of Monday. The vehicle mounted a central reservation, where he and a young colleague tried to puncture its wheels with a stinger device. The pick-up was later found abandoned. | |
| His colleague – an officer with two years’ experience – was able to jump clear and was not injured, but at an emotional press conference, Sir Jon Murphy, the chief constable of Merseyside police, said Phillips “didn’t stand a chance”. | His colleague – an officer with two years’ experience – was able to jump clear and was not injured, but at an emotional press conference, Sir Jon Murphy, the chief constable of Merseyside police, said Phillips “didn’t stand a chance”. |
| Phillips was given CPR by colleagues at the scene but died a short time later at Arrowe Park hospital. A Home Office postmortem found Phillips died from internal injuries caused by the impact with the vehicle. Colleagues have set up a memorial fund in Phillips’s honour and donations can be made online or by text (DAVE01 £(amount) to 70070). | |